Bernie Hanighen

Bernie Hanighen may be the songwriter who collaborated with Clarence Williams to transform Thelonious Monk’s bop masterpiece “‘Circular About Midnight” into “‘Circular Midnight,” a ballad regular within the vocal repertory for a long time. His 1st big strike, “Whenever a Female Loves a guy” with Gordon Jenkins, arrived in 1934. 3 years later on, Bing Crosby produced the Hanighen-Johnny Mercer structure “Bob White colored (Whatcha Gonna Golf swing Tonight)” successful. In 1944, he added a couple of amazingly sympathetic lyrics to Clarence Williams’ melody, as well as the music was put into the vocal cannon thanks to shows by Mel Tormé, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Chris Connor, and Julie London.